Facebook celebrates Independence Day by lighting up American outage maps Facebook has found itself on the wrong side of the July 4th holiday buzz as the grandparent-approved social network has had severe server problems. On Wednesday morning (US time) the social network confirmed that there was an issue that was causing users to have problems loading media files. Instagram and WhatsApp have also …
From what I can see (far West limit of Europe), Facebook is working normally (normally, not correctly) except that most images are not showing up.
This has the fun side effect that the ALT tags are easily visible now. (Browsers which I use will display a tooltip for TITLE, but not ALT.)
Facebook obviously uses the awesome power of AI to analyze photos, so now you get things like "Image may contain: smiling child, dead horse, outdoors" and have to imagine what that looks like.
well, during the War of 1812 (circa 1812-14), the nick-name used by the British forces for the American side was "cousin John" - we here in the States are all grateful for the tornado that hit Washington DC, destroyed the British encampment and damaged many ships, and forced them to retreat from the Capital. But in the end we're all best buds - sorry to run on, but seems my facebook is down so what else have I to do?
we here in the States are all grateful for the tornado that hit Washington DC
And the vast amount of support from the French, without which the rebellion may not have succeeded..
(And lets' not forget - for the British the Americas was very much a sideshow since most of the British military were involved with conflicts in Europe..)
It makes you wonder just what happened though, Since GDPR, data is supposed to be siloed in the EU for EU residents. You'd think FB having issues in one area would only affect users in that area or people requesting the data from that area. But this issue seems to have affected FB and friends worldwide at about the same time. Did they roll out an update across all the bitbarns worldwide? Or is it that everything is actually authenticated, served or routed through some central bitbarn? (Was it actually the NSA that had issues and not FB? </tinfoil hat mode>)
It's taken me years to educate my wife and get her to understand that "Google is not working" (She's lost her internet connection) or "the telly isn't working" (Virgin media outage, we don't need a new TV) is not a helpful thing to say, especially if I'm 100 miles away and driving at the time.
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